3 Chains o' Gold is a 1994 direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 film produced and directed by Prince

Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...

 and starring Prince and The New Power Generation. It is a video collection, tied together with a loose plotline. The film was the 69th best-selling video of 1994.

Plot

The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Mayte's father by seven unknown assailants. Mayte believes that the assassins were after the sacred "3 Chains of Gold". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes he is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Prince and Mayte, and Prince organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song "7

7 (song)

"7" is a song by Prince and The New Power Generation, from the 1992 Love Symbol Album. It features a sample of the 1967 Otis Redding and Carla Thomas duet, "Tramp".-Music video:...

").

Epilogue

At the end of the film, prior to the credits, is an explanation of the name change, attributing it to Prince's desire to be "reborn" and start a perfect life:

Upon the seventh day of the sixth month

Nineteen hundred and ninety-three

Marking the beginning and ending of cycles of creation

Prince, reaching the balance of thirty-five years,

Put into practice the precepts of perfection:

Voicing bliss through the freedom of being one's self

Incarnating the New Power Generation into

The close of the six periods of involution giving

Birth upon himself to regenerate his name as

For in the dawn, all will require no speakable name

To differentiate the ineffible one that shall remain.

Film and album

The film was accompanied by the Love Symbol

Love Symbol

is the fourteenth studio album by American recording artist Prince, released October 13, 1992 on Paisley Park and Warner Bros. Records. Due to its official title being an unpronounceable symbol, which Prince later adopted as his name, the album has been referred to as the Love Symbol Album, or...

album, however not all of the album's songs make an appearance in the film, and some of the songs are edited versions. The film's title song is only an instrumental at the end. However, some of the dialogue from the album does appear in the film (a phone call from a reporter, played by Kirstie Alley, to Prince). The final speech of the film (made by Mayte) does not appear on the album, instead another phone call is in its place. The actual songs that appear in the film are:

• "My Name Is Prince
  My Name is Prince
  "My Name Is Prince" is a song by Prince and The New Power Generation, from the 1992 Love Symbol album. The song is about Prince himself, and his musical prowess...
  
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• "Sexy MF"
• "Love 2 the 9s"
• "The Morning Papers
  The Morning Papers
  "The Morning Papers" is a song by Prince and The New Power Generation, from the 1992 Love Symbol album. The B-side was "Live 4 Love", a track from Prince's previous album, Diamonds and Pearls...
  
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• "The Max"
• "Blue Light"
• "I Wanna Melt with U"
• "Sweet Baby"
• "The Continental"
• "Damn U
  Damn U
  "Damn U" is a song by Prince and The New Power Generation from the 1992 Love Symbol album. The B-side was "2 Whom It May Concern", which was also available on the maxi single for "7".-Chart performance:...
  
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• "7
  7 (song)
  "7" is a song by Prince and The New Power Generation, from the 1992 Love Symbol Album. It features a sample of the 1967 Otis Redding and Carla Thomas duet, "Tramp".-Music video:...
  
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• "The Call"